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“Well, the Joy-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the ground up,” said Nate Bihldorff, senior vice president of product development and publishing. “They’re not Hall Effect sticks, but they feel really good.”

To the 3-5 pain piggies somehow lurking this site still: Do. not. buy.

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[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Begging the mods to ban you for posting this.

Also I swapped out my Switch joysticks with hall effect ones which wasn't that hard but having to do that at all is fucking stupid.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, do you carry the same water for the Steam Deck, which also decided against Hall Effect sticks?

[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I will never own one so I guess so, although maybe theirs are built better or aren't soldered to the mobo (probably are).

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Anything is built better than joy-cons. A metal rod rubbing on a piece of graphite is just such bad design, but I get why they did it, it lets them really slim down the sticks without over complicating it.

You can replace steam deck sticks without desoldering, though the capacitive touch function I think is a soldered wire if I remember correctly.

Ah, OK, thanks for explaining. Yeah that doesn't sound so bad. I'm so fucking annoyed repairing my gaming electronics and electronics in general so any design that limits me having to take stuff apart to clean it, replace capacitors, desolder CMOS batteries, replace parts, etc. is what I want in life.